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Mmm...might be more true to say "Around half of us opposed the Iraq war"

Ah, in fact:"Many of us opposed the war in Iraq"

If she'd had not run out of space I suspect she would have finally owned up to reality, which is of the 8 people mentioned as being in the bar, six supported the war and two didn't (assuming Eve Garrard did, it's hard to tell).

Gisela Stuart and Lord Soley are the first indications of Parliamentary support for Eustonia.

For those not familiar with Ms Stuart, she is a very, very right-wing Labour MP who recently praised the Geoffrey Howe budget of 1981 (see), argued that the modifications to the recent Education Bill were the only parts of the bill she didn't support, and was the only Labour MP to publicly back George Bush for re-election in 2004.

From the linked article:

"In a sense, the operation of the markets is a peaceful way of facilitating revolution whereby outsiders are allowed in, vested interests are challenged and the old is replaced by the new. That is why our Prime Minister faces such opposition to his - in my view, too tentative - reforms to education, health and other areas of the public sector from the unions."

"Miss Stuart claimed that a Kerry victory over President George W. Bush would prompt "victory celebrations among those who want to destroy liberal democracies".

Writing in The House Magazine, the parliamentary journal, the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston wrote: "More terrorists and suicide bombers would step forward to become martyrs in their quest to destroy the West.""

I've just looked at the flyer. *Far* too much text on the back, and the content itself is the sort of horrible verbose rubbish which characterised the manifesto itself. At least the leaflets produced by the Stop the War Coalition actually make tangible statements about events happening in the real world. Perhaps the Eustonians should ask them for advice.